The puritanical and authoritarian PC period we live in will come to an end at some point. Benny Hill will be granted a posthumous knighthood along with a golden statue at Heathrow Terminal 5.On the Buses will become part of the school curriculum.

Very funny man a true exponent of British saucy humour. Folloing in the footsteps of Chaucer, james Gillray, Donald McGill , Max Miller and the Carry On films.Sadly this is the end as the PC brigade have, in just a few short years, ended it all.

Hal Roach was of the era of Chaplin and laurel and hardy, he was probably in his 90s when he said that. Alfred Hill done very well for himself, by all accounts off screen a very decent man if a bit of a loner. Was resentful when his show was axed but things move on, you can't chase scantily clad women around parks in fast motion forever, as much as we'd all like to.

Hal Roach who produced Laurel & Hardy said Hill was the only comedian who compared to stars of the past.Charlie Chaplin was a fan I believe.Was reading he was making $5m a year in the 80’s from his shows being on all the time in the USAPrisoners rioted in an American jail when they were denied the chance to watch him

He was huge in America and I mean fucking HUGE with people like Steve Martin, Burt Reynolds, Micky Rooney, Phylis Diller, Joan Rivers and even the venerable Walter Cronkite, coming out in favour of him